Packaging/Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the reference platform for OpenStack. We follow the Ubuntu release cycle very closely, and do most of our QA on Ubuntu.
If you want to run OpenStack on Ubuntu, there are a few options, depending on your stability requirements and which version of Ubuntu you're running.
Ubuntu version | Only what is in Ubuntu | Only stable releases | Only milestone releases |
10.04 LTS (Lucid) | N/A | Milestone PPA | Release PPA |
10.10 (Maverick) | Pre-Austin snapshot | Milestone PPA | Release PPA |
11.04 (Natty) | Frequent snapshots.< >Cactus expected in final release |
Milestone PPA | Release PPA |
Trunk PPA
A PPA<<FootNote(Personal Package Archive: an extra apt repository you can add to your sources.list to get access to software not in Ubuntu.)>> where we will upload a new version for every single commit on trunk.
Information and instructions for use can be found on Launchpad.
The packages are built by grabbing the latest tarball from http://nova.openstack.org/tarballs/ and adding lp:~openstack-ubuntu-packagers/ubuntu/natty/nova/ubuntu on top of it, and adding a changelog entry.
Milestone PPA
(Coming soon!)
A PPA<<FootNote(Personal Package Archive: an extra apt repository you can add to your sources.list to get access to software not in Ubuntu.)>> where we will upload milestone releases.
Release PPA
(Coming soon!)
A PPA<<FootNote(Personal Package Archive: an extra apt repository you can add to your sources.list to get access to software not in Ubuntu.)>> where we will upload only final releases.